AAN News
Media Reporter Leaves Baltimore City Paper for Job With Local Daily
Gadi Dechter, author of the Baltimore City Paper's "Media Circus" column, will no longer write for the weekly. "Dechter did such a fine job reporting on The Sun ... over the past couple of years that the daily recently up and hired him," notes City Paper Editor Lee Gardner in this week's issue. (The editor's note is here, bottom of the page.) Most notably, in January Dechter exposed instances of plagiarism by veteran Sun columnist Michael Olesker, who then resigned.
07-12-2006 7:59 am |
Industry News
Seattle Weekly: Movie Based on Stranger Column Doesn't Sucknew
Seattle Weekly |
07-12-2006 10:28 am |
Industry News
Alternative Monthly Launches in Baton Rouge, Plans To Go Weeklynew
The Advocate (Baton Rouge) |
07-12-2006 8:53 am |
Industry News
Style Weekly Staffer in New York Times Wedding Video
Sunday's New York Times carried a wedding announcement for Style Weekly Arts Editor Carrie Nieman and her groom, Scott Culpepper; as an online bonus, visitors to the Times' Web site can stream a five-minute "Vows" video and watch the pair recount how they met (at a party) and how he proposed (in Costa Rica). Warning: the romance-averse may need to avert their eyes.
07-11-2006 3:15 pm |
Industry News
New Times BPB Writer Accuses Miami Herald of Lifting Detailsnew
On his blog "The Daily Pulp," New Times Broward-Palm Beach writer Bob Norman says that a July 9 Miami Herald article is "verging on a journalistic crime." Robert Santiago penned the Herald story on a transgender child that contains details similar to those in a May 18 New Times story by Julia Reischel. Norman argues that Santiago never saw the child, so he "got the information from the New Times story, plain and simple. And the Herald should have credited the NT story, damn straight." Santiago responds that "all the detail in the story comes directly from the parents and others I interviewed."
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
07-11-2006 8:41 am |
Industry News
Program Announced for AAN-Medill Writers Workshop
From young reporters needing basic skills to veteran editors in need of a recharge, alt-weekly writers of all experience levels will find training and inspiration at AAN's eighth annual Alternative Journalism Writers Workshop, on August 11-12 at Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Ill. Presenters will include Laura Dell, Bruce Shapiro, Michael Tisserand, Alan Prendergast, and AAN editors Patricia Calhoun, Julia Goldberg and Donna Ladd.
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AAN Staff |
07-10-2006 1:44 pm |
Association News
Tags: Editorial
Writer Turns Alt-Weekly Experience Into Crime Novel
It's no mystery why Cornelia Read chose to make the protagonist of her debut novel an alt-weekly journalist: Read drew from her own experience at Syracuse New Times. The similarities end there, however, as the heroine of "A Field of Darkness" not only writes, she also solves a double homicide. "Mystery lovers will enjoy 'A Field of Darkness,'" says Diane La Rue of The Citizen in Auburn, N.Y., and the book will keep them "guessing as to what happens next."
07-10-2006 1:37 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial
Village Voice Media Papers Dominate NABJ Finalists
The finalists in the National Association of Black Journalists' 2006 Salute to Excellence Awards were announced Friday, and six of the nine nominations in the "Newspaper - Circulation Under 150,000" division are Village Voice Media newspapers. The other three finalists are not alt-weeklies. Riverfront Times is the leader with three nominations: "Newspaper - Enterprise" for Randall Roberts' "It Was Just Like Beverly Hills"; "Newspaper - Sports" for Mike Seely's "Alley Cat"; and "Newspaper - Features" for Ben Westhoff's "Rap vs. Rapture." Dallas Observer has two contenders in the "Newspaper - Sports" category: Keven McAlester for "Balls Out" and Paul Kix for "Alone No More." Finally, Chuck Strouse of Miami New Times is nominated in the "Newspaper - Commentary" category for "Free this Priest." The awards recognize exemplary coverage of people or issues in the African diaspora. Winners will be announced August 19 at the NABJ convention in Indianapolis.
07-10-2006 8:48 am |
Industry News
Laura Miller Not Seeking Re-Election as Dallas Mayor
Former Dallas Observer columnist Laura Miller has been the city's mayor since 2002. CBS 11 News reports that she has decided not to run again next year because she would like to spend more time with her family. That is good news for other candidates, such as Zac Crain -- also an erstwhile Observer writer.
07-10-2006 7:04 am |
Industry News
Gaskell Leaves Cityview, Again, With 'No Drama'new
Jon Gaskell and Cityview have had a turbulent past: He first edited the paper from 2000 to 2002, then left and started his own alt-weekly, Pointblank, which was admitted to AAN membership in 2003. Cityview was sold to some of Pointblank's investors in April 2005, and the two newspapers merged into one alt-weekly that was still called Cityview, with Gaskell as editor. He tells The Des Moines Register that "there was no drama" in his resignation this time around; his departure was announced in a publisher's note in the current edition of Cityview.
Des Moines Register |
07-07-2006 4:58 am |
Industry News
Has the Internet Made News More of a Commodity?new
Greenslade |
07-07-2006 1:18 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Electronic Publishing
Farewell to Gaskell; Michael Swanger Is Interim M.E.new
Cityview |
07-07-2006 11:58 am |
Industry News
Willamette Week Turns Local Music Section Into Separate Online Entitynew
Willamette Week |
07-07-2006 9:16 am |
Industry News
Scene Can Expect Subpoena About Source of FBI Memonew
The Cleveland Free Times |
07-07-2006 8:43 am |
Industry News
New Books From L.A. Weekly Contributors
From a collection of "panty-dropping comics" to a philosophical argument that our culture is shifting from material to spiritual, recent books penned by L.A. Weekly contributors are a diverse lot. The paper provides a round-up in its July 5 issue.
07-06-2006 11:46 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, L.A. Weekly
